Analysis of the Co-existence of Long-range Transport Biomass Burning and Dust in the Subtropical West Pacific Region
Abstract
Biomass burning and wind-blown dust has been well investigated during the past decade regarding their impacts on environment, but their co-existence hasn’t been recognized because they usually occur in different locations and episodes. In this study we reveal the unique co-existence condition that dust from the Taklamakan and Gobi Desert (TGD) and biomass burning from Peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA) can reach to the west Pacific region simultaneously in boreal spring (March and April). The upper level trough at 700hPa along east coast of China favors the large scale subsidence of TGD dust while it travels southeastwards, and drives the PSEA biomass burning plume carried by the westerlies at 3–5 km to descend rapidly to around 1.5 km and mix with dust around southeast China and Taiwan. As compared to the monthly averages in March and April, surface observations suggested that concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, O3, and CO were 69%, 37%, 20%, and 18% higher respectively during the 10 identified co-existence events which usually lasted for 2–3 days. Co-existence also lowers the surface O3, NOx, and SO2 by 4–5% due to the heterogeneous chemistry between biomass burning and mineral dust as indicated by model simulations.
- Authors:
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[1]
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Climate Change Science Inst.
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). Dept. of Environmental Science and Engineering. Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Study
- National Central Univ., Chung-Li (Taiwan). Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1624404
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Science & Technology - Other Topics
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Dong, Xinyi, Fu, Joshua S., Huang, Kan, Lin, Neng-Huei, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, and Yang, Cheng-En. Analysis of the Co-existence of Long-range Transport Biomass Burning and Dust in the Subtropical West Pacific Region. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27129-2.
Dong, Xinyi, Fu, Joshua S., Huang, Kan, Lin, Neng-Huei, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, & Yang, Cheng-En. Analysis of the Co-existence of Long-range Transport Biomass Burning and Dust in the Subtropical West Pacific Region. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27129-2
Dong, Xinyi, Fu, Joshua S., Huang, Kan, Lin, Neng-Huei, Wang, Sheng-Hsiang, and Yang, Cheng-En. Tue .
"Analysis of the Co-existence of Long-range Transport Biomass Burning and Dust in the Subtropical West Pacific Region". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27129-2. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624404.
@article{osti_1624404,
title = {Analysis of the Co-existence of Long-range Transport Biomass Burning and Dust in the Subtropical West Pacific Region},
author = {Dong, Xinyi and Fu, Joshua S. and Huang, Kan and Lin, Neng-Huei and Wang, Sheng-Hsiang and Yang, Cheng-En},
abstractNote = {Biomass burning and wind-blown dust has been well investigated during the past decade regarding their impacts on environment, but their co-existence hasn’t been recognized because they usually occur in different locations and episodes. In this study we reveal the unique co-existence condition that dust from the Taklamakan and Gobi Desert (TGD) and biomass burning from Peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA) can reach to the west Pacific region simultaneously in boreal spring (March and April). The upper level trough at 700hPa along east coast of China favors the large scale subsidence of TGD dust while it travels southeastwards, and drives the PSEA biomass burning plume carried by the westerlies at 3–5 km to descend rapidly to around 1.5 km and mix with dust around southeast China and Taiwan. As compared to the monthly averages in March and April, surface observations suggested that concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, O3, and CO were 69%, 37%, 20%, and 18% higher respectively during the 10 identified co-existence events which usually lasted for 2–3 days. Co-existence also lowers the surface O3, NOx, and SO2 by 4–5% due to the heterogeneous chemistry between biomass burning and mineral dust as indicated by model simulations.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-018-27129-2},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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